On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:06 PM Michael Banck <mba...@gmx.net> wrote: > Not sure what to do about this, but as people/companies start moving to > 15, I am afraid we will get people complaining about this. I think > having exclusive mode still be the default for pg_start_backup() (albeit > deprecated) in one release and then dropping it in the next was too > fast.
I completely agree, and I said so at the time, but got shouted down. I think the argument that exclusive backups were breaking anything at all was very weak. Nobody was being forced to use them, and they broke nothing for people who didn't. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
